CONTENTS. _ EPISTLE TO THE COLOSSIANS CVwrfiwwrf PACE HOMILY VIII. Col. iii. 5-7. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth ; fornication, unclean- ness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, the which is idolatry; for which things sake cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience; in the which ye also walked aforetime when ye lived in these things. 293HOMILY IX. Col. iii. 16, 17. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and ad monishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God. And whatsoever ye do in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him . ..QQ HOMILY X. Col. iii. 18-25. Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well- pleasing in the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged. Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord : whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men ; knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance : ye serve the Lord Christ. For he that doeth wrong shall receive again for the wrong that he hath done : and there is no respect of persons. Chap. iv. i. Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven 303 HOMILY XI. Col. iv. 5, 6. Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one 309 HOMILY XII. Col. iv. 12, 13. Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, always striving for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God. For I bear him witness that he hath much labor for you, and for them in Laodicea, and for them in Hierapolis. . 314 FIRST EPISTLE TO THE THESSALONIANS. HOMILY I. I Thess. i. 1,2, 3. Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the Church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ : Grace to you, and peace. We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ before our God and Father 323 HOMILY II. I Thess. i. 8, 9, 10. For from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Mace donia and Achaia, but in every place your faith to God-ward is gone forth; so that we need not to speak anything. For they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and true God, and to wait for His Son from Heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivereth us from the wrath to come 327 HOMILY III. i Thess. ii. 9-12. For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the Gospel of God. Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and righteously and unblamably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe : as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you and encour aging you and testifying, to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into His own kingdom and glory 332 HOMILY IV. I Thess. iii. 5-8. For this cause I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I mightknow your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be in vain. But when Timothy came even now unto us from you, and brought us glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, even as we also to see you; for this cause, breth ren, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith : for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord 339 HOMILY V. i Thess. iv. i, 2, 3. Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk, that ye abound more and more. For ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, even your sanctilkation 344 HOMILY VI. I Thess. iv. 9, 10. But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another; for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia 34 HOMILY VII. I Thess. iv. 13. But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep ; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, which have no hope 352 HOMILY VIII. i Thess. iv. 15-17. For this we say unto you by the word of the Ix>rd, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep. For the